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Where to begin? Perhaps yesterday is a good place to start! It was an adrenalin infused day!! Actually that´s a complete understatement!! It was one of the most intense, jam packed days ever. First we headed out of our hotel in Lima (Where we had arrived the night prior, after yet another fiasco with LAN airlines, or maybe it was the travel company, we may never know...but my mantra was, our health is good, and nothing catastrophic has happened to us, thus this was all in the name of experience. Marina said she liked my attitude, thus she´d travel with me again.) at the unfathomable hour of 4:15 am (although we´ve had numerous early start times this trip)! We drove, with our driver Roberto, to Paracas where we had a delicious banana leaf wrapped chicken tamale on the ocean while a lad named Jesus chatted with us at length about Lima and Trujillo. We were waiting for a boat to take us out to the ¨poor man´s Galapagos¨.

(Sea)lions, Sandboarding & Glyphs, Oh My!!

Wendy R
2007-04-21 22:08:02

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Where to begin? Perhaps yesterday is a good place to start! It was an adrenalin infused day!! Actually that´s a complete understatement!! It was one of the most intense, jam packed days ever. First we headed out of our hotel in Lima (Where we had arrived the night prior, after yet another fiasco with LAN airlines, or maybe it was the travel company, we may never know...but my mantra was, our health is good, and nothing catastrophic has happened to us, thus this was all in the name of experience. Marina said she liked my attitude, thus she´d travel with me again.) at the unfathomable hour of 4:15 am (although we´ve had numerous early start times this trip)! We drove, with our driver Roberto, to Paracas where we had a delicious banana leaf wrapped chicken tamale on the ocean while a lad named Jesus chatted with us at length about Lima and Trujillo. We were waiting for a boat to take us out to the ¨poor man´s Galapagos¨.

We waited a bit longer than expected, and amidst organized chaos, as it seemed everyone in Peru was wanting to take the same tour. After about an hour and a half, we got rock star treatment and were escorted to the front of the line...seems there was some sort of pay-off involved by one of our guides. Marina was amazed and intrigued by all the commotion, as was I...but eventually we were off on a choppy, bumpy ride to the islands just off of Paracas.

It was grand to see SO many birds, but the sea lions were mesmerizing! There about 1,500 of them, and many had just had baby sea lions! Two of my colleagues have been to the Galapagos islands, just last summer, thus I know from viewing their photos that the Galapagos has a much more enchanting and wider variety of animals, but it was still intriguing to see the sea lions in their native environment.

Next we drove to Ica for our eagerly anticipated flight over the Nasca/Nazca lines. However, as has been the case with so many of our flights, ...